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^^ A sentence many a man has said over the years and continues to say to this day.

“I want to be lean and strong”

^^ Something I’m pleased to announce more women are saying, it seems there has been a shift in them saying ‘I just want to be skinny’ to now learning the benefit of being lean and strong, it’s great to see.

While it is only my opinion, I feel everybody should be strong.

I’m not talking about record breaking strong, just strong enough to stay healthy and stave off the effects of ageing on the body.

These sports all centre around lifting:

– Weightlifting (olympic lifting)

– Body Building

– Powerlifting

– Strongman

– CrossFit (some may not like this one)

Did you know lifting weights can have the following positive effects on the body:

Personally I’d say the mental improvement is the pivotal one as this can have the biggest impact on a persons life in a very positive way.

However….

If you’re not an athlete and lift for health/confidence you should do it because you enjoy it, not because you feel you have to, that’s the secret to balance and long term sustainability.

Don’t eat yourself up if you miss a session, chalk it up to life and sue it as a rest day, that way you’ll be more motivated when you get to go in, excited to train in fact. Keep this in mind and you’ll find you don’t fall out of love with training.

What if lifting isn’t for you?

That’s cool, find soothing you do enjoy, here are some other options for improving strength and all achieving all the other benefits mentioned above:

There is a simple explanation for the reason a large chunk of people fail to achieve their desired goal.

If you were to ask them how they should do it, you’d more often than not get back an almost textbook answer of logic, common sense and information that for all intensive purposes would actually work but it didn’t.

Do you want to know why?

It’s simple really. Have a think and see if you can guess…

Application.

They didn’t apply what they knew, thus they failed (did you guess correctly).

One of the main factors to success is the application of the knowledge you have or attain. Through application you will be able to find out what actually works for you and what doesn’t.

No one can force you to apply your knowledge or better put, no one can for you to apply yourself in the necessary way needed, only you can do that. It’s your choice, your attitude, it’s all on you.

Before you start thinking “Oh, I would but XYZ.”, just stop it.

You can either apply yourself and do what you need to to or you can’t, it’s that simple. If something gets in the way you can work around it and adapt, or maybe you can’t, only you know what you’re willing to do but you will only know what you’re capable of if you toughen up and apply yourself.